Urgent Deficiency Appropriations on Account of War Expenses: 1918, Hearing ... 65th Congress, 1st Session1917 - 979 pages |
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... CENT INCREASE IN PAY . The CHAIRMAN . There have been a number of decisions on the 5 and 10 per cent increase provisions which have been carried in all the appropriation bills . My understanding is that they are based upon the fact that ...
... CENT INCREASE IN PAY . The CHAIRMAN . There have been a number of decisions on the 5 and 10 per cent increase provisions which have been carried in all the appropriation bills . My understanding is that they are based upon the fact that ...
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... cent or 5 per cent when otherwise he would not receive it . A man might draw $ 6 in one day from the Government and still get two 10 per cents on it , but it is impossible to fix a standard rate per day and then multiply that . The ...
... cent or 5 per cent when otherwise he would not receive it . A man might draw $ 6 in one day from the Government and still get two 10 per cents on it , but it is impossible to fix a standard rate per day and then multiply that . The ...
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... cent and the total expenditure increased to $ 100 . Applying that same rate of percentage for normal deaths , it ... cent and the 10 per cent ? Mr. AYERS . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . Why ? Mr. AYRES . It is a privilege extended to the ...
... cent and the total expenditure increased to $ 100 . Applying that same rate of percentage for normal deaths , it ... cent and the 10 per cent ? Mr. AYERS . Yes , sir . The CHAIRMAN . Why ? Mr. AYRES . It is a privilege extended to the ...
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... cent ? Secretary LANE . Yes ; our cost now would be greater than 22 per cent . The CHAIRMAN . Because at one time - I think it was either last session or the one before that - they were running under their esti- mate . Secretary LANE ...
... cent ? Secretary LANE . Yes ; our cost now would be greater than 22 per cent . The CHAIRMAN . Because at one time - I think it was either last session or the one before that - they were running under their esti- mate . Secretary LANE ...
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... cent of the troops that are invalided home are mental and nervous cases . They have brought home something like 40,000 troops . So that we are bound to have a very considerable number of them . The CHAIRMAN . Forty thousand invalided ...
... cent of the troops that are invalided home are mental and nervous cases . They have brought home something like 40,000 troops . So that we are bound to have a very considerable number of them . The CHAIRMAN . Forty thousand invalided ...
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additional Admiral GRIFFIN Admiral HARRIS ammunition amount appropriation Army Arsenal artillery asking authority barracks bill BRETT building bureau BYRNS camps CANNON Capt cent CHAIRMAN clerks committee Congress construction Contracting Officer contractor Corps cost cotton Council of National court CROZIER DALY Department depot district employees enlisted equipment estimate expenditure expenses facilities figures fiscal Frankford Arsenal funds furnish GILLETT going Government guns hospital increase interposing Island July JULY 16 Kent Island labor Laguna district land Lieut LITTELL machine manufacture MARLATT material MCCAIN ment months National Guard Navy Navy Department necessary Ordnance paid plant purchase purpose Quartermaster Quartermaster Corps quarters railroad repair rifles Sandy Hook SCOFIELD Secretary of War Secretary REDFIELD SHARPE SHERLEY ships SISSON statement station storage submitted supply thing tion transportation Treasury troops United War Department Watervliet Arsenal